The neocon and nativist nationalist conceptions are, on this formal level, hostile to one another. The former empowers the latter ultimately, which the neokons can never understand yet. One of my favorite examples of this is when liz chaney started a political action committee called keep america safe after obama was elected president. It's implying morocco bama playing the extant nativist mem of bertherism. And i think everything that we see since in both dick chaney, i'm sorry, in both a bill crystal and liz Chaney's political careers needs to be understood as emerging from that soil.
Episode one of The Dig's three-part War on Terror series the with Spencer Ackerman: 9/11, bipartisan war fever, and George W. Bush.
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